The Garbage Thread

[Kestle]

Have a few tricks...let's get a few of you to contribute some more!

OK, here are a few:

1) We put a trash container on the swim ladder, setting it parallel to the water. It's nice having it down wind.

2) we try and unpack as much as possible, leaving it all behind.

3) No cans. They take up too much space. No glass jars either.

4) Tuna in foil. Great stuff, little trash.

5). Fresh fish, caught or bot, no trash.

6) Run/whiskey. The good stuff doesn't need mixers.

7) Porta Potti doesn't use flush water; use a sports type gatorade bottle with a nipple. Add some to the bowl, do your biz, then rinse using the bottle. Much less water use.

8) Burn paper trash in grill under charcoal.

9) We keep a sharpie pen to label the cups for guests.


Anyone got any other ways to reduce trash on a 3 day trip?

Jeff

 

[centerline]

we have spent so much time on the boat away from the dock on weekends that we have found 3 day trips are fairly easy to manage the trash. but I will agree that for a lot of people on a three day trip, the forethought and preplanning is probably not as thourough as planning for a week or more, so i think more garbage can be accumulated on a 3 day trip because of this difference.. we have learned to be as thrifty on an overnight stay on the boat as we do if we were out for days... it becomes a way of living and doing things on the boat...a habit. its not an effort or a thought, its just the way its done...
I agree NO GLASS aboard, except for the particular brand of medicinal alcohol that isnt sold in plastic bottles, but then this is guarded more closely than is a regular glass container.... but a lot of nutritious food can be carried in cans, so we do use them a lot.

on longer trips, one way we found to deal with the trash that we did accumulate was to make sure we carried the extreme heavy duty contractor type garbage bags. these are super thick and extra tough.... we could open it and throw the small bags of garbage into it that we collected every three days then reseal it.... the large bag with garbage in it was stowed in the aft end of the cockpit, UNDER the cockpit cushion.... this would raise the cushion up and make a comfortable back rest... when underway on the motor I could lounge back against it and steer... or when on the hook, it was still comfortable to just lay back and relax against the garbage... we used a bungie to secure it to the taff rail stanchion so it would stay put when sailing. we used one bag in 13 days, without the need to discard,or being uncomfortable, unsightly, or odiferous

 

[MrBill_FLL]

on a 3 day trip, I bring a small spare cooler full of (only) ice, to replenish the two I carry. that becomes the garbage storage. once empty.

I also freeze small water bottles for ice /cooling, and use only them for the food cooler. -which keeps is from getting soggy. half gal bottles also work well.

 

[walt]

There are some long storage areas under the aft bed area that I’ve never used. It’s very difficult to get to those storage areas because the covers are almost the length of the bed. Chris H. had an idea a long time ago where he just cut the last maybe 1.5 foot of the cover so that you could just remove the small section by just lifting the front end of the mattress. That seemed like it would have been a good place to store trash since you dont need to pull anything out until your done with the trip but I never tried this.

When the family would go for a week at Lake Powell (very remote), we had two ice chests. One of the ice chests was used up first and it then became where the trash went.

We would also bring along two dogs on those week long trips and one time the dogs discovered the dog food when we were kayaking (can’t remember the details.. but they had a nice party). After that, we also started storing the bag of dry dog food in the empty ice chest.

 

[finding41]

I love the contractor grade garbage bags. There is no other bag stronger.
They can carry as much water in them as you can carry.
I'm planning to have the laz on my 26Ds vented with a small muffin fan and plan to have some sort of container back there for garbage.
(Not sure what type of container yet.) Ideas....?

 

[Kestle]

Another one: use chamois instead of towels in the galley. We also keep a thing of Clorox wipes for cleanup.

Jeff

 

[Freedom77]

Some great ideas. We used to moor at Emerald Bay on Catalina. Every morning a motor barge, commonly know as the salad bowl, would come down from the Isthmas. A couple of guys would scoop up the stray loose kelp and collect trash from the boats in the harbor. We'd tip them a coupla bucks. Some citizen, probably power boater, left a big bag of trash on the beach and a wild boar, many on the island, came down and distributed it all over the beach. We and others cleaned up the mess.